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This Macrobiotic Health Blog is the place to find how-to videos and articles, learn the latest in macrobiotics, and get informed about whats going on at the Strengthening Health Institute. If you would like to get more information or suggest a topic for our health blog, please just let us know by using the form below.

When it comes to our health, we think about lungs, heart, and brain. However, we forget an integral part of our wellness comes from the large intestine and gut health. The large intestine fights off sickness, keeps lungs healthy, and helps us stay mentally strong. Have the strong health you always wanted!

Chakras originated from India as early as 1500 BC and are still used to interpret physical, spiritual, and emotional problems. By learning how to strengthen our chakras, we become more connected to ourselves––emotionally and spiritually, learn to appreciate the world around us, and become physically healthier.

Eastern medicine practices are often misunderstood and scrutinized by modern science. Influencing individuals to stay away from traditional practices that could support health. In this blog, we hope to change that by sharing information on shiatsu meridians. When shiatsu meridians, eastern principles, are applied to a massage, it can improve your health, treat illness, and create healing.

This is a beneficial bancha tea recipe with use of the umeboshi plum or plums comes from the macrobiotic cooking expert, Susan Waxman. Susan is co-founder of Strengthening Health Institute and has dedicated her life to creating dynamic and healthy meal plans.

Susan Waxman has dedicated herself to creating healthy meal plans and teaching macrobiotic recipes to students. This is her recipe of a easy, refreshing, and light arugula salad with a macrobiotic salad dressing.

What is in your salt? Salt should be evaluated on what type of salt is used, refined salt or unrefined sea salt, and when salt is added to food. This will determine if the salt will be harmful or beneficial to the body.

The modern diet is based on unhealthy and processed foods. On this diet, the body is out of balance. These foods cause the body to accumulate toxins and increase in acidity. With the lack of nutritionally dense foods and outdoor activities, the body cannot naturally detoxify to neutralize and eliminate toxins.

With the right tools cooking can be made simply and healthy. A very easy base for meals are brown rice. In this article, we will teach you why you should eat brown rice, best pot for cooking brown rice, how to cook brown rice, and variations on brown rice recipes.

Learn about the similarities... and differences... between the Mediterranean diet and macrobiotics. The Mediterranean diet offers a lot of benefits for people who are looking to be healthy - but ultimately macrobiotic practice is a better holistic approach to a healthy lifestyle - this is why!

There are many diets that come and go and they can be difficult to determine how to follow them. Macrobiotics shouldn't be that way. Learn how to create a meal plan that doesn't focus on the latest trends, but on long-lasting staples from historically healthy civilizations.

The vegan diet and lifestyle abstains from the consumption and use of all animal and dairy products including silk, honey, and leather. Some only follow the vegan diet plan while others incorporate veganism in all daily aspects. The adoption of a vegan diet or lifestyle leads to many personal discoveries and challenges.

Vegan chef training is an undertaking for people looking to use these skills for professional and personal reasons. You may simply enjoy cooking, you may want to have a healthier family, or you may be interested in building a career as a professional vegan chef.

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This is a follow up article on the macrobiotic definition posted by Denny Waxman. Below, we will detail the purpose and conversations behind why it was so important to create a universal understanding of macrobiotic practice.

The following was released by the George Ohsawa Macrobiotic Foundation in their magazine, Macrobiotics Today. It features the Strengthening Health Institute’s founder Denny Waxman and his open letter to President Trump as a plea to incorporate macrobiotic education into US domestic policy.

Allow adequate time for meals using the following as a guide. This is a paraphrased excerpt from one of Denny Waxman’s macrobiotic books. The minimum time required to consume a meal is twenty minutes. Now you might think that’s an arbitrary number, but it’s not. Let me explain.

This is the first step towards good health and will help you feel more satisfied. Sitting down to eat at your mealtime is an expression of our appreciation and respect for our food. Sitting down enables us to create order in our daily eating habits and it makes us more conscious of what we eat.

The following macrobiotic bean recipes will help incorporate beans into a healthy diet. These recipes come from Susan Waxman, acclaimed chef and macrobiotics expert at the Strengthening Health Institute.

I was quite saddened to hear the recent news of the closing of the Kushi Institute. Meeting Aveline and Michio Kushi changed my life. I studied with them personally because it was before the Kushi Institute officially formed. Their friendship and teachings guided my quest for knowledge.

The Strengthening Health Institute is the global leader in macrobiotic health and lifestyle education. It is also the home of world-renowned macrobiotic chef, and instructor, Susan Waxman. The holidays are usually coupled with enjoying time with family and bonding – usually over large, traditional meals.

The following macrobiotic recipes have been prepared by Susan Waxman, acclaimed macrobiotic chef at the Strengthening Health Institute. no matter your mood, you should be able to find one of these 8 dishes will help you to make an easy, fun, and most importantly... healthy meal!

Tihs Peruvian Quinoa dish prepared by Susan Waxman includes an ingredient list and cooking instructions for a fantastic gluten free dish! We hope you enjoy this macrobiotic recipe that is easy and tasty!

This award-winning Azuki Bean Stew recipe was featured in our most recent newsletter. This is a good dish for balancing blood sugar and caring for hypoglycemia/diabetes, a topic which we’ll explore MORE at our Discovery Macrobiotic Seminar on May 16th!

This barley bean stew recipe was created by Susan Waxman, and was also featured in our latest newsletter. So, sign up to receive more recipes! This one is easy and delicious for those of you looking for a macrobiotic meal to make. It will be an instant classic if you are not already making something similar!

Hello everyone, and welcome to the ALL-NEW SHI website! First of all, SHI wants to continue to be the leader in macrobiotic education across the globe. As a result, we've been working hard to stay modern, fresh and flexible with our approach…

We encourage everyone to learn more about the goodness of food through macrobiotics. We have developed many unique, learning-focused macrobiotic courses for people interested in learning about how to change their lifestyles and/or those around them to a more healthy, vibrant existence.

Macrobiotics

What is macrobiotics? Macrobiotics is a system of holistic principles and dynamic practices that guides choices in nutrition, activity, and lifestyle for physical, emotional, mental, social, and environmental health.